Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haste breeds arbitrary decisions that are no more than edicts, or "absolute" principles that soon collide with other principles, fail to resolve conflicting interests, or collapse in the face of experience. By contrast, great judging requires intense effort, a consuming passion for the public interest, a scorn for personal whims. No fealty to that effort was ever more impressive or poignant than that shown by Justice Felix Frankfurter, dissenting from a court ruling that Jehovah's Witnesses could not be forced to salute the flag in public schools. "One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority...
...nature and social movement, not the new movement's transcendental, personal God who comes to earth in the person of Jesus, in the lives of individuals, in miracles (see box, page 60). The Jesus revolution, in short, is one that denies the virtues of the Secular City and heaps scorn on the message that God was ever dead...
...slogan, printed on all agency stationery, was "Reaching for the Stars." In 25 countries around the world, the agency's reception rooms always had big bowls of red apples-a small, folksy offering for all visitors. The unpretentiousness of Burnett's work may have provoked the scorn of some young admen, yet many in the agency field contend that his influence was a major force for reasonableness in advertising. Says veteran Adman Emerson Foote: "If there were more people like Leo, there would be no antiadvertising movement today...
...week of my freshman year at Radcliffe, our dorm residents held an introductory meeting to announce that five girls had been raped on Garden Street and we should please never walk through the Common at night without an escort. This warning was met with nervous laughter and pseudo-sophisticated scorn. Everyone continued to walk defiantly through the Common, whether attended or not, no one got raped without at least first giving her consent, and when, that spring, a man wandered off the street into Jordan J and stabbed a girl with an ice-pick, only a few of the more...
...Dutch baroness and the father of two grown children. Luns is a speed reader whose photographic memory enables him to absorb history and Foreign Ministry cables even as he is watching television. A member of the moderate Catholic People's Party, he makes little attempt to disguise his scorn for progressive Catholics within his party, and for leftists of any ilk. While looking at TV, he says, "I get up and leave when some leftist starts saving the whole world." Luns, who has served far longer in office than any other Western Foreign